Index for 2007                        Break-In          Volume 80     

 

 

Title

Issue

Page

 

 

Technical; constructional

 

 

 

 

A further look at dip meters

Jan/Feb

17

 

 

An easy to build vertical antenna for 70cm

Nov/Dec

7

 

 

An unusual antenna; a bi-direction Yagi

Sept/Oct

15

 

 

Design of coils for antenna and circuit applications

Jul/Aug

10

 

 

DXR Microwave equipment; mods and projects.

Sept/Oct

11

 

 

Errata; a “Pert” DTMF generator

Mar/Apr

14

 

 

Fold-back current limiting for the AWA 2283 power supply

Nov/Dec

12

 

 

Micro-controller projects for amateurs. Pt 15; ATTiny Keyer

Nov/Dec

5

 

 

“Pert” DTMF generator

Jan/Feb

15

 

 

“Pert” DTMF generator revisited

Jul/Aug

13

 

 

Strip-line reflectometers for VHF

Sept/Oct

16

 

 

Tait T500 series radios; diode matrix programming.

Sept/Oct

14

 

 

The hunt for the elusive varicap

Jan/Feb

12

 

 

Universal design graphs for antenna chokes.

Nov/Dec

8

 

 

Yaesu FT-817 finals replacement

Nov/Dec

15

 

 

Setting up a  vehicle for portable operation

Nov/Dec

18

 

 

Technical General

 

 

 

 

ARC5 radios in their original application

Nov/Dec

16

 

 

BPL Trial Mt Beauty

Jan/Feb

10

 

 

Choosing a hand-held TV camera-recorder.

Sept/Oct

8

 

 

Experimental  Television

Jul/Aug

4

 

 

Microwave operation in NZ

Jul/Aug

18

 

 

Space weather and radio communications. Pt1

Nov/Dec

6

 

 

Technical Forum; making open wire feeders, Soldering taps on to a coil.

Sept/Oct

37

 

 

Technical Forum; Useful 78xx regulator circuits.

Jul/Aug

8

 

 

Transworld Radio and its NZ connections, Pt 2

Jul/Aug

6

 

 

Transworld Radio and its NZ connections. Pt 1.

Jan/Feb

16

 

 

Why use a masthead mounted amplifier ?

Sept/Oct

9

 

 

Working DX on 80m mobile

May/June

12

 

 

Antennas

 

 

 

 

A note on antenna height

May/June

9

 

 

An easy to build vertical antenna for 70cm

Nov/Dec

7

 

 

Bi-direction Yagi

Sept/Oct

15

 

 

Design of coils for antenna and circuit applications

Jul/Aug

10

 

 

End-fed wire aerials

Nov/Dec

14

 

 

Errata; “HF Multi-band antennas” article

Jul/Aug

29

 

 

Helical Antenna; description and design.

Mar/Apr

6

 

 

Home-brew bike antenna for 2m.

Mar/Apr

13

 

 

Making a wire dipole from almost nothing

Nov/Dec

17

 

 

Shadowed loop antenna

Jul/Aug

9

 

 

Simple dual-band VHF-UHF antenna

Sept/Oct

21

 

 

Some thoughts on HF multiband antennas

May/June

6

 

 

Strip-line reflectometers for VHF

Sept/Oct

16

 

 

Telescopic, end-fed, half wave antenna for a 2m hand-held

Mar/Apr

16

 

 

Tuner for the 160m vertical

Jan/Feb

20

 

 

Universal design graphs for antenna chokes.

Nov/Dec

8

 

 

Vertical antennas for mobile and portable applications.

Sept/Oct

4

 

 

VHF/UHF and microwave antennas. Part II, polarisation

Jan/Feb

6

 

 

Why use a masthead-mounted amplifier ?

Sept/Oct

9

 

 

Digital techniques

 

 

 

 

Software defined radio and Softrock 6.2 Lite

May/June

4

 

 

Tait T500 series radios; diode matrix programming.

Sept/Oct

14

 

 

Satellites

 

 

 

 

Amateur Radio on International Space Satellite

Jul/Aug

35

 

 

Working the LEOs. Pt 3, satellite jargon

Jan/Feb

18

 

 

Working the LEOs. Pt 4, “The dreaded Doppler effect”

Mar/Apr

4

 

 

Book and Software reviews

 

 

 

 

Book review; “PIC Basics

Jan/Feb

22

 

 

Book review; “Power Supply Handbook

Jan/Feb

24

 

 

Book review; “Morse Code for Radio Amateurs

Jan/Feb

21

 

 

Book review; “Circuit Overload; circuits for the radio amateur

Mar/Apr

24

 

 

Book Review: 100 Basic Electronic Projects

May/June

17

 

 

General interest

 

 

 

 

Amateur Radio on International Space Satellite

Jul/Aug

35

 

 

Amateur Radio Station at the 21st World Scout Jamboree

Mar/Apr

43

 

 

Angus Tait ZL3NL receives 2006 Fred M Link Award

Jan/Feb

8

 

 

Caveat emptor; a tale of TVI

May/June

31

 

 

Great radio hams of the past (a poem)

Mar/Apr

30

 

 

Hertz revisited

Jul/Aug

16

 

 

Manawatu Amateur Radio Society; Br20 NZART; 75 years

Jul/Aug

21

 

 

Opapa and the Spy (WW2)

Jan/Feb

22

 

 

“Radio Waves” at the VUW Physics Picnic

Jan/Feb

9

 

 

Radio Waves Symposium report

Jul/Aug

14

 

 

Science & Technology Fair reports 2007

Sept/Oct

22

 

 

Silver Fern Rally, Part 1.

Mar/Apr

9

 

 

Silver Fern Rally, Part 2

May/June

14

 

 

Working DX on 80m mobile

May/June

12

 

 

World Scout Jamboree stations

Sept/Oct

23

 

 

NZART

 

 

 

 

2007 NZART AGM & Conference reports

Mar/Apr

18

 

 

2007 NZART Conference; remit

Mar/Apr

24

 

 

2007 NZART Conference; Treasurer’s  report and accounts

Mar/Apr

24

 

 

Branch and Club call-signs

Nov/Dec

26

 

 

The Changing World

Nov/Dec

4

 

 

Withholding your details on the SMART database

Nov/Dec

27

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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